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VIENNA - A 66-year-old Austrian woman lived for almost a year with the corpse of her 85-year-old partner, APA news agency said on Wednesday.
Police found the remains of the man in the couple's small vacation cottage in the eastern village of St Andrae am Zicksee on Tuesday, swaddled in blankets with the dwelling reeking of decomposition odours.
The woman had told a local doctor and neighbours who tried to contact the man since last March that he was abroad. APA said police were looking into whether the woman concealed his death in order to collect his pension payments.
The dead man was separated from his wife, who had also tried to contact him, APA said.
- REUTERS
